JavaServer Faces 2.0 (JSR 314) will bring the best ideas in web application development to the Java EE platform. This presentation by co-spec. lead Ed Burns gives you an overview of what you can expect in the near JSF future.
The Expert Group will be harvesting existing ideas that:
Maximize the productivity of the web application development experience, for graphical IDE and command-line developers.
Minimize the complexity of maintenance of the web application during its production lifetime.
Make it easy to create responsive user interfaces through effective use of Ajax techniques. This includes enabling applications that have nearly all of the MVC controller UI logic and intra-page component interaction into the client, while keeping a sensible level of application logic on the server. Ideas that allow for graceful degredation when JavaScript is diabled or unavailable are also important.
Make it possible to expand the reach of your web application by continuing to support fully functional server based web applications that do not use JavaScript in the client.
Leverage modularity to expand integration opportunities between the JSF framework and other client and server side web application technologies. This would make it easier for a developer to use individual parts of JSF without being forced to use all of it. For example, the request processing lifecycle is useful even without the JSF View being present. As another example, JSF has a robust I18N and L10N capability. It should be possible to use this capability without using JSF components for your UI. A short way to characterize this is, "be mashup friendly".
Make it easy to expose your data by leveraging the Java Persistence API
Ed Burns is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. Ed has worked on a wide variety of client and server side web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat and, most recently JavaServer Faces. Ed is currently the co-spec lead for JavaServer Faces.
Interview with Ed Burns at JavaPolis'07— Ed Burns, co-spec lead for JavaServer Faces, gets interviewed at JavaPolis by our JavaPosse friends Dick Wall and Carl Quinn. During this interview Ed takes the opportunity to talk about his new book and of course about.. euh ... JSF
Basics and Concepts of JSF— This session will introduce you to the basics of JSF 1.2 and will explain why JSF is different from other web-frameworks. The concepts of JSF will be shown using the JSF request lifecycle, a short overview of the JSF standard components will complete the picture. Additionally, we'll bring a little light into the jungle of JSF frameworks, add-ons and component libraries and introduce you to the most important ones briefly.
AJAX Development with JSF— This session explains how you can build attractive, AJAX-enabled applications using JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology without the use of manually-coded JavaScript. After a brief overview of JSF and the JSF programming model, the session explains how component vendors leverage JSF's architecture to build AJAX components, and shows several of AJAX component suites in action. The session ends with a discussion of how JSF will evolve to provide even better AJAX support.
Dynamic Applications With Faces and Ajax— What's all the buzz about Faces and Ajax working together? Can these two technologies really work together to develop dynamic applications? We begin with an insight into the design heritage of Faces, and we'll explore some patterns for using these two technologies together. Then we'll dive into the code from a page author and component developer's perspective, and take a detailed look at the Dynamic Faces (better known as DynaFaces) Ajax framework. We wrap up with a summary of other Ajax / Faces frameworks that are available today.
Kito Mann 2006 JavaPolis Interview— Ted Neward talks with Kito (JSFCentral) Mann about, yes you guessed it, Java Server Faces. What is the current state of JSF, what's the impact of Javascript and Ruby on the JEE5 presentation tier and how does it compare to ASP.NET are just a handful of questions that are fired by Ted.
